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Economics

3 February 2025

  • US President Donald Trump walks on the South Lawn of the White House on Sunday after arriving on Marine One. Follow for live news updates.

    Business live
    Trump tariffs live: stock markets roiled by global trade war fears as Canada, Mexico and China retaliate

  • Empty shelves remain with signs ''Buy Canadian Instead'' after the top five US liquor brands were removed from sale at a British Columbia liquor store in Vancouver.

    Asian stock markets tumble in response to Trump tariffs

2 February 2025

  • New York yellow cabs pass a large electronic Nasdaq sign

    Trump tariffs: markets brace for falls as Mexico and Canada hit back

  • Economic growth forecast in London, UK - 27 Jan 2025<br>Mandatory Credit: Photo by David Tramontan/SOPA Images/REX/Shutterstock (15121833e) A general view of the Bank of England in the City of London. The brokerage firm Morgan Stanley has forecast a below 1% economic growth for the UK even though the Bank of England as forecast a 1.5% for the same period. Economic growth forecast in London, UK - 27 Jan 2025

    How Donald Trump’s trade tariffs could affect the UK

  • Ella Baron on Trump’s tariffs – cartoon

    Guardian Opinion cartoon
    Ella Baron on Trump’s tariffs – cartoon

  • Heather Stewart

    Economics viewpoint
    Trump’s tariffs could have grim knock-on effects for UK’s economy

    Heather Stewart

  • Observer business agenda
    Pressure rises on Bank of England and the Fed as the interest rate debate gets political

  • Justin Trudeau announces tariffs on US products in retaliation against Trump – video

  • William Keegan's in my view
    Does Labour really think Trump is a better bet than the EU?

    William Keegan

  • Reeves’s Heathrow expansion plans leave Labour’s green agenda grounded

  • Can we build it? No – because Britain may not have enough workers

1 February 2025

  • Gas pump with prices beyond it

    US gas prices likely to go up with Trump tariffs on Canadian and Mexican oil

    Tariffs on imports mean higher costs for finishing fuels, much of which is likely to be passed on to consumers
  • Rachel Reeves on her knees in front of a golden calf on a plinth labelled growth. Beneath the plinth are offerings labelled ‘Planning Laws’ and ‘Oil Platforms’.Reeves is holding up another offering labelled ‘Third Runway’. She is chained to a a huge ‘Brexit’ troll behind her with a studded cudgel with which it is smashing things. The troll is laughing and saying “That’s it, Rachel, now try not to be so wooden and remember to smile when you pretend green aviation fuel is a ‘game changer’…”

    Observer comment cartoon
    Chris Riddell on Rachel Reeves’ burnt offerings to the golden calf of growth – cartoon

    A third Heathrow runway, planning law reform to build more houses and a windfall tax on oil and gas – but will it all make up for the cost of Brexit?

    • Carney vows Canada will ‘stand up to bully’ as Trump imposes trade tariffs

    • Trump’s tariffs on Canada, Mexico and China: will they spark a trade war?

    • ‘People wanted change’: Scranton felt the pinch – but are Trump tariffs the answer?

31 January 2025

  • Elton John performing

    The Guardian view on AI and copyright law: big tech must pay

  • Mohamed El-Erian

    Give Rachel Reeves’s plan for UK growth a chance

    Mohamed El-Erian
  • A photo of AstraZeneca's research operations in Cambridge.

    Business live
    AstraZeneca cancels £450m Liverpool investment, blaming UK government funding cuts – as it happened

  • Office workers walk through Canary Wharf in London during the morning rush hour

    Stats chief to face MPs amid concerns UK economic data is ‘virtually unusable’

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